Comprehensive Area Assessment

Over the summer the LGA has been “taking the temperature” from leaders and officers on how CAA is being implemented. They want to know whether the ambitions are being realised, whether there are patterns emerging about the needs for future improvement support and what the experience tells us about the future of inspection and assessment. The analysis has been brought together in “CAA: how is it measuring up so far?” which is available to download from the LGA website at http://www.lga.gov.uk/lga/publications/publication-display.do?id=3884352. There are still significant concerns with the system, and as a result the LGA is calling on the Local Government Minister, John Denham and the Audit Commission to ensure that the Inspectorates deliver on the ambition for CAA by working together more effectively at local level and delivering the promised reduction in the burden of assessment. For the longer term the LGA Improvement Board is developing proposals on the shape of inspection and assessment in the future.

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